Great-Depression should be renamed the Great Inflation

Good Traders/Speculators are Regulators/Policemen of free market prices. When prices get Stupid and Irrational(Overbought/Oversold) in either direction there we are with Reason/Logic to bring the price to a more representative fundamental value.

That Representative Fundamental value in a market is the result of long-term rational trends based on sound fundamental analysis by investors.

A good investor does not merely look to buy low sell high like a Trader does. A good Equity investor diversifies a portfolio of companies that create value, increase efficiency, and bolster production to create wealth that prior to their actions did not exist.

This, However does not happen like this anymore because we do not live in a free market. One now must watch carefully in the understanding of 'Real' pricing and value thanks to so much manipulation of the market by the United States Government, and Inflated prices because of the FED.

That I don't have. I'm still very green. I've spent years reading every business, investment, and economics book I could get my hands on and have ran my own business for the last 4 years. I only recently started trading as a hobby 8 months ago with only $500 during the last Bitcoin surge to $1200.

So i've only traded BTC for that time, but now that i've worked my way up to $25,000 (My portfolio https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AieQiVL6xc-1dHE5anhTSGotYUVIMmR5cERIYU5BOVE&output=html ) I'm seriously considering Daytrading as a new career path, and would be doing more diverse research then.